Iwata Wins Famitsu Award
January 2nd, 2007 by Matt Stone in Articles, Business
The latest edition of Famitsu Weekly reveals the winners of the 2006 game industry awards. The winner was Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata, who, according to Famitsu, has made the greatest impact on gaming in 2006. The runner up was Sony’s Ken Kutaragi, while Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy) was third. The top 5 were:
- Satoru Iwata (Nintendo) - 201 votes
- Ken Kutaragi (Sony Computer Entertainment) - 181 votes
- Hironobu Sakaguchi (Mistwalker) - 126 votes
- Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo) - 41 votes
- Hideo Kojima (Konami) - 33 votes
Via Joystiq
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January 2nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Well deserved
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 am
Reggie should have won!
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
Iwata is the brain. Reggie is pretty cool though
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 am
Reggie can’t win, this is Japan only. But he’s cool, although he doesn’t create anything, Iwata is the father of the DS. Reggie is just the PR guy with all the smooth-taking.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 am
Iwata is the biggest reason Nintendo is doing so good, they pack a great team, him and Shiggy.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 am
ZZzzzz, can we get the results of the Japanese baseball league as well plz, its about just as pertinent to me and my life as this crap is…
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 am
What did Ken Kutaragi do?
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 am
Well deserved is an understatement … the man ruled 2006 and this was just icing on the cake. Good going making gamers of all skill levels and former non gamers alike happy and raising the share prices for your shareholders.
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:48 am
Ken Kutaragi wins this years awards for services to bullshit and bad management
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Ken got second place for RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Rofl
January 9th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
How did Ken Kutaragi get second place for doing everything wrong?
January 10th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
“How did Ken Kutaragi get second place for doing everything wrong?” The award was for who made the “greatest impact” on gaming, not necessarily for doing anything constructive. Kutaragi gets second place for managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the console wars.
January 11th, 2007 at 12:38 am
I think Kutaragi got the award just because he was actually able to ship the blu-ray, HDMI, Cell processor enhanced PS3 before the end of the year and it has proven to be pretty stable to be perfectly unbiased and honest … now Sony just needs to figure out a way to get it to sell well against it’s competitors.